Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 2 | There are , of course , history books , or rather sections and chapters in books , which do focus on women . |
| 3 | Or perhaps lawyers and judges all accept the proposition as obviously true though not true by convention : perhaps the consensus is a consensus of independent conviction , the way we all accept that it is wrong to torture babies or to convict people we know are innocent . |
| 4 | Or perhaps afternoons and evenings ? |
| 5 | In Mr Ainslie 's opinion , the acquisition of the collection had protected the market from a ‘ huge onslaught ’ of works by twenty or so artists and the operation had been done in an ‘ intelligent , systematic way ’ . |
| 6 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 7 | Stornoway is a very busy Branch and with its two Mobiles the staff of 34 cater for our customers among the 25,000 or so Lewis and Harris residents . |
| 8 | When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly , the Trunchbull marched on to the platform . |
| 9 | Most of the twenty or so men and women in the Cabinet are well known to one another and have worked together over some years . |
| 10 | and her friends moved on to Stonham Aspel Primary School , they missed the fact that there was only 20 or so pupils and now at their new school there was around a hundred and twenty or so . |
| 11 | Only 100 or so family and close friends were at the graveside , visible from the garden of the family home , to hear the Rev Russell McLarty of St Paul 's Church , Provanmill , say that Arthur Thompson 's children wanted their father to be remembered as a kind and generous man who loved life and took great pleasure from his family and grandchildren . |
| 12 | It would , for example , be an extraordinary institution which could encompass a thousand or so adolescents and not encounter some difficulty . |
| 13 | As fine a herd of slaves as you could wish — one hundred and twenty prime males and another seventy young females , half a dozen or so children and two suckling babes . |
| 14 | Among the 50 or so booksellers and publishers attending a seminar on the new Single Market rules organised by the Börsenverein in Frankfurt in December the mood was described as ‘ agitated and despairing ’ . |
| 15 | Estimates suggest that there may be enough coal left to last a few more hundred years , enough oil to last perhaps 70 or so years and natural gas could run out within 50 years . |
| 16 | In a week or so weather and growth would have sealed up again all the raw edges that betrayed its use . |
| 17 | They will soon ascertain whether or not Gore-Tex and Timberland live up to their much-vaunted specifications . |
| 18 | Despite the current interest in the pathogenic potential of Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) , the question of whether or not motility and cisapride effect H pylori colonisation has not been resolved , although sketchy data are available that show that patients with dyspepsia infected with the organism have more rapid gastric emptying than healthy H pylori negative controls . |
| 19 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 20 | Father and I were going to go in there whether or not Balbindor and his son accompanied us . |
| 21 | In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages . |
| 22 | It is difficult to assess whether or not unemployment and economic conditions were vital to the decline in the size of working-class families , or whether the prospect of purchasing new consumer goods conditioned the responses of the working classes . |
| 23 | In summary , whether or not Fama and Jensen 's reasoning is right , it can not be said that more minuses in table 3.1 mean worse performance . |
| 24 | These markers are outward signs portraying whether or not individuals and collections of people belong to the same ethnic group . |
| 25 | Grand Lodge , in its evidence to a 1987 Church of England Working Party set up to investigate whether or not Christianity and freemasonry were compatible , claimed that this was wrong . |
| 26 | The first-rate courses in Norfolk are legion , too , but for a midweek break or longer Sheringham and Royal Cromer , close together on the northern coastline , and Great Yarmouth & Caister and Gorleston , offer a perfect combination for holiday golf . |
| 27 | In education such a policy would improve performance indicators immediately as a much higher percentage of youngsters would then achieve three or more Highers and gain entrance to university ; success all round ! |
| 28 | The format of the character string is : Where : The date or both date and time may be set as show below . |
| 29 | There are various reasons for taking out either or both insurance and assurance . |
| 30 | It is unclear whether Microsoft intends to support PC-NFS on one or other or both client and server versions of NT . |